After further investigation and help from friends, i have concluded that the issue must be the MBR which was probably on the crashed HDD.

I suppose that would explain the problem. my question is...

hello,

a couple of days ago i was surfing the net minding my own business, when all uf a sudden, my IDE 60gb HDD started making a familiar clicking noise .. and sure enough its now dead.
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oh dear,

already i made a mistake.

im sorry i dont know how to move this to another section where it belongs...

Hello,

i am new to this site, i hope you can help me.

i am trying to fix a computer for some relatives, where one the the 5-6 svchost.exe is using 100ish % cpu power for no reason it seems....